Back in the days before Windows, when dinosaurs, like me, roamed the earth, there was a popular LAN OS called Netware, aka Novell.

As it happens, that was what I used in my operation, and it served me well, allowing all my "workstations" to "see" the server as mapped disk drive volumes.

In the 8 years or so over which I used this OS, Netware 3.11 (the Y2K compliance of which was nil, I was able, among other things, to create backups to tape, from which recovery was both easy and quick.

Viruses had already become an issue, beginning with the days of the "bulletin board," and I ran daily backups of the server and all workstations just to make recovery from those (I had gotten one from floppy-disk distributed commercial software, though the vendor promptly made on-site repairs for me.) a bit more likely.

Now, I'm engaged in the process of trying to recover some old data from those backups, but haven't got a running Netware server. The backup software doesn't want to let me restore the files to a local disk drive.

Does anyone know how to cope with this particular problem? Is there a way to "fool" DOS into thinking it has an attached server with the required volumes?

RE